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Updated 11/17/11 |
Our Mission:
To provide the Pinball Community with parts and kits that are unique or not easily obtained elsewhere. We will do this by assembling kits and special projects that are unique to the world of pinball. And provide them at the lowest cost possible.
UPDATE 11/17/11:
It's Over for Wobble Head. We are going to sell remaining stock and that will be the end forever. If you are on our standby list, we may get to you. We are no longer taking orders for Wobble Head.
UPDATE 09/24/11:
We have started shipping Wobble Head Kits!!! We have a list of people who were interested in acquiring a kit but building the parts took a little longer than we expected and now we are contacting people on the list to see if they are still interested. If you want to re-affirm your interest, please contact Al at the address below and we'll let you know where you are on the list.
UPDATE 02/19/11:
Parts are being made for units for both the ES and DW machines. We get e-mails asking whether we are still doing the projects or not. We are. It takes a long time to make everything and put the machines together. If you are on the list and got our e-mails, you will be offerred a kit. We are setting up a 2nd chance list for others to get in. We will update when possible.
UPDATE 10/02/10:
Our second mailing went out today with a note from Mark about the project. Check your Spam filter if you didn't get it. Also, we WILL be starting a "2nd Chance" list for people still interested. More on that as we get closer to having kits to sell.
UPDATE 09/28/10:
We finally sent out an update to the people on the mailing list!!! If you were expecting a note that never came, write Al at the address below. We'll compare with our notes and confirm. We had a few non-delivered emails so we'll make it good. Next Mailing goes out 10/01/10. Make sure e-mail from pinballobsession.com will get through your spam filter.
UPDATE 09/18/10:
We have decided to do BOTH of the kits below this year. We have more than 50 people signed up for each kit. We CLOSED THE LISTS
at 9/18/10 at 11:59PM Eastern. Thanks to everyone who signed up!
We will be compiling the e-mail lists this week and sending out occasional e-mails about the progress of both projects to people on the lists.
We get tons of questions about the cost of the kits. We won't know until they are built. Everything is assembled by hand with many of the parts machined, one at a time, from raw elements. The newsletter will update you with as much info as we know at the time.
Our Upcoming items:
Earthshaker Moving Institute Kit
Add this kit to your Williams Earthshaker Pinball to make the Institute on your machine move in sync with the game. Works just like the prototype and your game is all ready to use this kit. Kit will include motor unit, wiring harness, and detailed instructions. The kit will include all of the necessary hardware and wiring to adapt your Earthshaker's stationary Institute into a fully moving one. There is nothing else to buy and we have done all of the hard engineering for you. The Moving IE is being designed and built by Mark E. Davidson.
Bill Ung of UFO Pinball had this to say about our first run kits:
"I had the pleasure of running your Earthshaker Building mod on my proto Earthshaker yesterday. We unplugged the building and ran a general test. The mechanism worked great!! It followed all the normal instructions and behaved just like the original. The owner had brought the mechanism to our monthly Pinball League Night. I was impressed with the wiring harness connectors. That's an awful lot of soldering, but the assembly really works well."
Michael Wagnon wrote:
"Mark and Al put together a solid reliable version of the prototype building from earthshaker and the
related documentation. Mark's building assembly was a solid good design. I only had to remove the pop rivets
from the building and undo 2 screws on the rail to install the building into the assembly. Al's detailed
manual made the install really simple and quick to install the building kit to the playfield and attach
the wires to the back box boards. From start to finish it only took me about 3 hours. Kudos to Mark and Al
for their hard work to make a complex installation simple for the users."
Contact Information:
General Questions:
Click to email Al
Request for Technical Help:
Click to email Mark
